The 2007-05-21 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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W3C and WSRI Workshop to Explore Transparency in eGovernment
Toward More Transparent Government: Workshop on eGovernment and the
Web will be held 18-19 June in Washington, D.C., USA, at the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences. Attendees, invited speakers and
panelists will discuss how the Web works for citizens and
governments and how it can best achieve their goals. Co-sponsored by
W3C and the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), the Workshop is
free and open to all but registration is required. The deadline was
extended to 22 May for position papers which are strongly
encouraged. Read the press release, the report of the first W3C
eGovernment symposium, and about Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/eGov-policy-cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/eGov-policy#registration
http://www.w3.org/2007/05/egovpressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2007/eGov/symposium-spain-report
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
Last Call: XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0, Requirements, Use
Cases
The XSL Working Group and XML Query Working Group have published
three Last Call Working Drafts: "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text
1.0," "XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0 Requirements," and
"XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0 Use Cases." Full-Text 1.0
technology extends "XQuery 1.0" and "XPath 2.0" with full-text
search capabilities. Comments are welcome through 2007-06-22. Learn
more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xpath-full-text-10-20070518/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xpath-full-text-10-requirements-2007051
8/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xpath-full-text-10-use-cases-20070518/
XML Protocol Working Group Renewed
W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the XML Protocol Working
Group. Chris Ferris (IBM) chairs the group which is chartered to to
maintain and develop as needed the "SOAP Version 1.2," "XML-binary
Optimized Packaging" (XOP), "SOAP Message Transmission Optimization
Mechanism" (MTOM) W3C Recommendations. W3C Members may use this form
to join the Working Group. Read about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/
http://www.w3.org/2007/01/XML-Protocol-Charter.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/
http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-mtom/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/32157/join
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0: Working Drafts
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has
released updated Working Drafts of "Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0," "Understanding WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques for WCAG
2.0." See the call for review for additional information. The group
also published an updated WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference, a customizable
list of WCAG 2.0 requirements and techniques. Following WCAG makes
Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including
people with disabilities and older users, using many different
devices including assistive technologies. Comments are welcome
through 28 June. Visit the Web Accessibility Initiative home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20070517/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20070517/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20070517/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2007AprJun/0038
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/
SKOS Use Cases and Requirements: Working Draft
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the First
Public Working Draft of "SKOS Use Cases and Requirements."
Knowledge organization systems, such as taxonomies, thesauri or
subject heading lists, play a fundamental role in information
structuring and access. These use cases and fundamental or secondary
requirements will be used to guide the design of SKOS (Simple
Knowledge Organisation System), a model for representing such
vocabularies. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-skos-ucr-20070516/
Last Call: Web Services Addressing Metadata
The Web Services Addressing Working Group has released a third Last
Call Working Draft of "Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata" to
prepare the specification for consideration as a Candidate
Recommendation. Used to indicate support for the "Web Services
Addressing 1.0 mechanisms" using the "Web Services Policy 1.5
framework" and defining how to express WS-Addressing properties in
the "Web Services Description Language" (WSDL), this new version
refines the Web Services Policy assertions. Comments are welcome
through 8 June. Read about Web services.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ws-addr-metadata-20070516/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-ws-addr-core-20060509/
http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-policy/
Unicode in XML and other Markup Languages Published
W3C is pleased to announce the publication of "Unicode in XML and
other Markup Languages" as a Unicode Technical Report and a W3C
Note. Major changes since the "previous version" encompass the
alignment with Unicode 5.0 and the discussion of "white space
handling." The guidelines are published jointly by the Unicode
Technical Committee and the W3C Internationalization Core Working
Group. Visit the W3C Internationalization home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-unicode-xml-20070516/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-unicode-xml-20030613/
http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-unicode-xml-20070516/#White
http://www.w3.org/International/
Health Care, Life Sciences and the Semantic Web: Publication
The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
(HCLSIG) has reached a significant milestone with their publication
of the article "Advancing Translational Research with the Semantic
Web." This joint work of the Interest Group was published in BMC
Bioinformatics, a peer-reviewed open access journal that plays a
central role in the bioinformatics community. The authors illustrate
the value of Semantic Web technologies to neuroscience researchers
and biomedicine and report on several projects by members of the
Interest Group. Read about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/S3/S2
RDF Access to Relational Databases: Advance Notice of Workshop
W3C plans a Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases on 25-26
October in Cambridge, MA, USA, hosted by Novartis. Workshop
attendees from the Semantic Web and relational database communities
will examine commonalities, distinctions and next steps for
expressing relational data in RDF. A Call for Participation is
expected in late May or June. Read about W3C Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/RdfRDB/
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
W3C Opens Southern Africa Office
W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Southern Africa
Office. The Office is hosted at the Meraka Institute, a unit of the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria,
South Africa. Quentin Williams is Office Manager. Daniel Dardailler
and Stephane Boyera are among those who attended the opening
ceremonies on 14 May. Visit the Offices home page.
http://www.meraka.org.za/innovate/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
Past home page news...
Upcoming Meetings
* W3C Workshop on HTML Mail, 24 May
* W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web
Applications, 5-6 June
* Toward More Transparent Government:Workshop on eGovernment and
the Web, 18-19 June
* W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
October
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 17 May, Paris, France: Formalising the Proximate Semantics of
XML Languages with UML, OWL and GRDDL. Henry Thompson presents
at XTech 2007.
* 23 May, Madrid, Spain: La Administración Electrónica y la Web:
una historia de amor?. José Manuel Alonso presents at Día W3C en
España 2007.
* 24 May, San Francisco, USA: Designing for International Users:
Practical Tips. Richard Ishida presents at @media07 America.
* 28 May, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Global eStandards and Web
Architectures for eGovernment projects. José Manuel Alonso
presents at 13th GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum.
* 31 May, Roma, Italy: Il W3C e la cultura dell' accessibilità.
Oreste Signore presents at Web senza barriere. Il passato, il
presente e il futuro dell'accessibilità.
* 7 June, London, United Kingdom: Advancing Web Accessiblity.
Shawn Henry presents at @media07 Europe.
* 21 June, Seattle, USA: Getting Real with Accessibility. Shawn
Henry presents at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
* 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML
Conversion. Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
(ICDAR).
* 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for
Pen-Based Computing. Stephen M. Watt presents at International
Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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